Anyone is free to build it themselves. Someone could even distribute their own build from the same source under a different name completely legally.

You could just as easily in the spirit of this community do it with the same name and code, same way they do it for cracked games. Don’t tell me it’s not done because there are security concerns, you have no way to tell if cracked games contain secret malware in them yet people still distribute and download those.

They bank on users being lazy and then pay for the convenience.

And also pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason…

They’re banking on your low standards.

Yeah this is unfortunately common, and many people are quick to defend developers like that making excuses.

Does ffmpeg handle DVD decryption through libdvdcss? I don’t think it does, it’s a tool mainly meant for file conversion and encoding of mpeg files. I could be wrong though.

At least it got leaked at all. Hopefully we’ll get another leak in the future.

That makes sense, best to try and give them a chance before going the ugly route. I do try and point this out since there are a lot of people who believe you should never EVER do a chargeback since companies, especially the sleazy ones claim it’s not allowed or broadly illegal (likely because if people were more inclined to do it, they’d be in big trouble).

It’s not “a bit misleading” for them to call it unlimited and then ban people for using too much data, it’s extremely misleading, almost bordering on scammy. If I were OP I would’ve done a chargeback and switched VPNs instead of begging them for an unban. They deserve it for lying and trying to deceive customers. Vote with your wallet (and chargebacks) if you want companies to stop doing shitty shady like this.

Hopefully when it does drop out of Beta and they start charging people for activation people will be willing to crack it and use it for free.

Sure it does, it makes it so newcomers can’t view the chat history, it makes less sense to encrypt a room anyone can join but it doesn’t make no sense at all.

Huh, could’ve sworn when I joined it the first time it was encrypted since it said I can’t see the history of encrptypted messages and I got “can’t decrypt message” errors a few times on my Android client.

Is the Piracy room on Matrix an acceptable place to ask for that kind of stuff? I mean it is End-to-End Encrypted. Even if it isn’t allowed there you could always ask someone else via DM on Matrix, is why I highly recommend people make and link their matrix accounts to their Lemmy profiles. You do have to know who to ask of course but these types of vague posts are great for that.

Note: Can’t use Lemmy’s built-in DMs you need to use Matrix or some other E2EE service, especially if they’re going to share direct links to you. Don’t use a corporate one like Facebook messenger or Whatsapp which is advertised as E2EE, those are a scam and they break their own encryption.

Most rational and sensible Beehaw take I’ve seen yet /s

So do it anyway, not like they could ever know. It’s not a very enforceable thing is it.

And the name is derived from an awful slur too. The history of that is really messed up.

Obligatory Goldberg link since lots of people these days are still unaware that SteamWorks DRM is easily bypassed these days (you don’t even need to patch the files, you can just bypass it).

Maybe recursive DNS will become much more popular. I’d love to see faith and compliance with ICANN and IANA erode at least a little bit. Centralized DNS is the Achilles heel of the open internet, and yes that extends to activitypub based platforms which federate via domains.

i’m not blaming other pirates for anything. What i’m saying is there are consequences for some things. For example, many things are not acted upon because corporations and governments arent aware of them.

Companies like Valve and Nintendo are absolutely aware of piracy and exploits in their systems, to assume they are not is extremely naive, and is one of the basis for people blaming pirates. The ignorant and incorrect idea that they don’t know and that piracy being popular makes them aware is the primary reason for hostility and gatekeeping in the piracy community. Ironically it actually hurts preservation efforts by making content less available to people.

Or some things are just ignored because its cheaper for them to do nothing about it than act.

That’s not really a thing either, if it were they’d ignore piracy almost completely and let people just buy games as they normally do, it’s cheaper and easier for them to do nothing, rather than waste money with copyright trolling. So this really isn’t a good argument.

Don’t you see the necessity of trying to manage how corporations might respond?

I’ve explained how their reactions to ““abuse”” are largely an excuse already so I’ll just say this. It isn’t worth it to try and play 4D chess with companies like this because at the end of the day they’re cheating at it. Even if you were able to get no one to use any kind of exploit in Family sharing or similar courtesy projects these companies do to foster goodwill, you’d find that in the end they would still choose to discontinue or neuter it because of ““abuse”” and that people will be said that “people abusing it ruin it for everyone” because that fostering of goodwill does wonders fro boosting credibility and getting people to believe their greed motivated lies.

You’re not going to stop them from getting worse, and nothing the rest of us do can either, short of overthrowing the companies, and ending capitalism. Something that ultimately isn’t likely to happen any time soon. What you’re forgetting here is that when I say companies use abuse as an excuse I really mean the excuse part. They’ll say it’s happening even if it’s not significant, and they’ll say it’s happening even if it isn’t happening at all. If they get tired of the courtesy and want to go back to making more money they’ll lie and say they’re ending it because of abuse and people who do blame pirates will eat that excuse up even if it’s a lie and begin attacking pirates for it, like they always do. Do you see it yet?

You’re not spewing false nonsense, that person is talking out of the ass, and trying to push their own personal opinions about piracy and DRM bypassing as if they are objective or officially sanctioned by the community moderators or the instance staff. They are not. Their opinion that we shouldn’t use these tools because Valve is somehow good is just that, an opinion. Not a very correct one at that since Valve has shown they aren’t good guys before like this person says.

That makes sense. Everyone has different motives and reasons for pirating, would make sense that we wouldn’t push one thing or the other like that person is suggesting. Thanks for your feedback.

Ok @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com Let’s settle this debate, does the dbzer0 instance and/or the Piracy community here push the “Good Guy Valve” stance and thus consider this bad practice, or do we consider Valve to be like any other company which uses DRM in regards to this situation. That is to say it is permitted and encouraged like breaking any other DRM.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this matter.

If dn0 isn’t available, another community mod or instance admin can feel free to answer this, I CCed you in the bottom of this comment. I apologize if the ping was annoying.

CC: @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com @RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com